Author Archives: Binky

Summer in the UK: the Summer Fete

There is nothing quite like a village fete!  Every year in the summer months in the UK, hundreds of villages put on their garden fetes.  In the case of our village the fete is held on 22 June in a beautiful local garden where the freshly mowed lawns are dotted with stalls selling second hand Bric-a-brac, books and jewellery: locally grown vegetables and plants and of course the chance to sit in the shade and have tea and cake or a cool glass of Pimms.  For the children, after an ice cream and a run about it is time to sit down and watch the Punch and Judy Show.  What better way to spend a sunny summer's day.  See if you can recognise the special guests on the stage!  Mr Punch please put him down!  

Binky Books bring you closer!

Did you know that we sell more books to grandparents, godparents and parents than we do to anybody else? Binky Bear books are photographed in real locations and the map in each book means you can go and walk in Binky's footsteps and relive his adventure yourselves.  There are Binky walks in the country: the beautiful Georgian town of Alresford in the Hampshire countryside: in historic Winchester and now in Central London.  And you will come across a lot of the same animal characters: swans, ducks, squirrels.  If you go on the London Binky walk you will meet the Horses of the Queen's Life Guards and the pelicans in St James' Park.  Do the walk in the morning and you can see the ceremony of the Changing of the Guard which takes place every day at Horseguard's Parade: on Sundays it is at 10.00 am and on every other day it is at 11.00 am.  TripAdvisor give this ceremony a rating of 4 and they have a lot of useful comments about where to stand.  Finally to see a brilliant time lapse photography of The Trooping The Colour ceremony, held at Horseguards in mid June each year, click here. The Binky walks give a great purpose to the day and the kids will love it.  Have a brilliant day out! Horseguards_0546_m

Little Binky Bears helping out on The Watercress Line

Binky's Big Adventure is our first book as you know and the opening page is a fantastic double page photograph taken in one of the carriages on The Watercress Line. Here you can see two Little Binky Bears, who have their copy of Binky's Big Adventure with them, have stopped to help out in the signal box at Alresford Station.  (They were fully supervised.) Remember if you take your copy with you on the train you can find Binky's actual seat (next to seat 27) and you can then do Binky's walk around Alresford down to the watercress beds and via the cake shop!  What a perfect day out.   LittleBs_SignalBox_4917

Binky Bear Newsletters

Newsletter_4739_Adj Here is our first newsletter and here is our second. We have started creating newsletters to keep you all up to date on what is going on in Binky's World. Each newsletter is a collage of items from our Facebook and Twitter accounts and you will see what Binky has been up to and who we have been talking to.  

National Picnic Week

It is National Picnic Week 2014 and Binky has been having a picnic with his neighbour and good friend Jess.  Cake and cheese+biscuits were definitely on the menu.  We are not quite sure who managed to eat the most but we can tell you, it was rather a quick picnic!  There are loads of tasty picnic suggestions here www.NationalPicnicWeek.co.uk

What a great day! Sunday 18th May 2014

  AAB_3791Watercress_004 Thank you to everyone who came along to the amazing Watercress Festival.  It was great to see all our fans and just soak up the sun.  11,000 people came along. Here is a pic of the Binky Team including our amazing but shy back room boys!  Big thank you to Anthony Oxley for taking the photo.

Binky Goes To London

The latest book in the series, Binky Goes to London, was published in October 2013. Binky and his family go to London for the day and while everyone goes shopping, Binky sets off on his own to find the Queen and have tea. Binky Goes To London was photographed in and around Trafalgar Square, Horseguards Parade, St James’s Park and Buckingham Palace in the Autumn of 2012. This Binky Bear story features two corgis, a squirrel, a pelican and a friendly horse! Binky Goes To London has already attracted one famous fan, Dame Judi Dench who says, “Anyone who loves Teddy Bears and knows of their secret lives will love this book.” Praise indeed and before you ask, yes, two copies have been sent to The Palace!

First prize at the Alresford Show!

Binky Bear wins first prize at the Alresford Show! Moira did a fantastic display of welly boots and hay, little Binky Bears and books: Binky’s Big Adventure and Binky in Trouble. We took record advance orders for Binky Goes To London which we anticipate will be published in October. We are really chuffed with our award, our first one! Thank you Alresford Show.